For human beings, the nature and quality of attachment and nurturing provided by caregivers in childhood is a key predictor of relationship harmony throughout life.

When we did not receive consistent, attuned parenting to support our process of becoming fully ourselves, we made adaptations to these limited resources by creating distortions and defenses to handle early relationship disappointments.

These may become unconsciously reenacted in similarly frustrating relationships. Romantic partners may wish that their union will heal their respective early parenting experiences. While this is partially true, early disappointment also shows up. This may be healed with a unique process of couple’s somatic healing.

Patricia uses a developmental process of releasing unhealthy attachment patterns that result in limiting beliefs about oneself. Her process offers her clients access to strengths and resources already within themselves, to be mobilized for thriving rather than surviving.

It is thus possible to transform anxious, avoidant or ambivalent attachment styles into a more secure attachment style either in an individual or couples process.

The desired outcome is sovereign, empowering self-love which fuels the capacity for balanced, reciprocal love of others.

During individual or couple’s sessions clients explore and apply relevant elements of universally accepted attachment styles - secure, anxious, avoidant, and ambivalent.

Becoming aware of and managing internal experiences of sensation, emotion and thought is essential for developing inner calm and stability and supports healing.  This includes:

Becoming aware of your body’s distress signals and responding with internal tools for self-care, rather than over-riding or avoiding your body’s important messages to you.

Noticing your reactivity to emotional triggers and processing them effectively to return to balance quickly (fight/flight/freeze, panic).

Developing an inner dialogue that is self-accepting, kind and encouraging while decreasing your habits of judgment, self-criticism and fear. 

Making space for your essential human needs:  rest, exercise, play, healthy eating, companionship, creative expression and spiritual/intellectual fulfillment.

All experiences across the lifespan live in the body neurologically, able to be accessed and released through somatic healing processes.  Experience is traumatic when it has overwhelmed a person’s capacity to integrate it. This is especially true for children whose coping abilities have not yet developed. This overwhelm shows up over a lifetime in symptoms, recurrent struggles, self-limiting beliefs and fear-driven behaviors whose unconscious origins lie in traumatic memory. Somatic healing can transform the traumatic memory and accompanying self-limiting beliefs, eliminating their effects and offering profound transformation.  

The healing process develops a variety of inner resources to hold and protect the client while accessing and processing traumatic memory.  This experience is gentle and deeply relieving, creating space for creativity, love and joy.

Somatic healing is a creative process based on the most effective protocols and unique to each client.